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Famous Prayerful Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Prayerful poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous prayerful poems. These examples illustrate what a famous prayerful poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The night was dark; the true star set. Isolt!
The name was ruler of the dark--Isolt?
Care not for her! patient, and prayerful, meek,
Pale-blooded, she will yield herself to God."


And Isolt answer'd, "Yea, and why not I?
Mine is the larger need, who am not meek,
Pale-blooded, prayerful. Let me tell thee now.
Here one black, mute midsummer night I sat,
Lonely, but musing on thee, wondering where,
Murmuring a light song I had heard thee sing,
And once or twice I spake thy ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord



...st rich and yet most white
Virginities!

Mulched with unsavory death,
Grow, Soul! unto such white estate,
That virginal-prayerful art shall be thy breath,
Thy work, thy fate....Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney
...
The night was dark; the true star set. Isolt! 
The name was ruler of the dark--Isolt? 
Care not for her! patient, and prayerful, meek, 
Pale-blooded, she will yield herself to God.' 

And Isolt answered, `Yea, and why not I? 
Mine is the larger need, who am not meek, 
Pale-blooded, prayerful. Let me tell thee now. 
Here one black, mute midsummer night I sat, 
Lonely, but musing on thee, wondering where, 
Murmuring a light song I had heard thee sing, 
And once or twice I spa...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...fold.
I speak for each no-tongued tree
That, spring by spring, doth nobler be,
And dumbly and most wistfully
His mighty prayerful arms outspreads
Above men's oft-unheeding heads,
And his big blessing downward sheds.
I speak for all-shaped blooms and leaves,
Lichens on stones and moss on eaves,
Grasses and grains in ranks and sheaves;
Broad-fronded ferns and keen-leaved canes,
And briery mazes bounding lanes,
And marsh-plants, thirsty-cupped for rains,
And milky stems and suga...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

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